Homelessness

Word on the Street is Baltimore’s newest ‘street newspaper.’ It’s an experiment in community collaboration, bringing together homeless writers and photographers, community activists, students from local colleges and universities, and publishing professionals. It gives voice to people who are not often heard from in our community.

On an off for the last five years, a handful of homeless people called the encampment near Baltimore’s JFX freeway home. But at the beginning of the month, the city razed the camp to deal with the city’s homelessness problem. The move is just the latest in a series of moves made by the Mayor to deal with homelessness in Baltimore. But many of the city’s advocates say the Mayor’s plan is ill-conceived. And what’s worse—it’s not working. This hour, we look at the problem of homelessness in Baltimore—including what underlying systemic issues are complicating the situation.

Baltimore is continuing its drive to end chronic homelessness with a new initiative aimed at finding permanent homes for the city's 75 most vulnerable homeless people. We talk about it with Olivia Farrow, director of the Mayor's Office of Human Services and Gabby Knighton, outreach coordinator in the city's Homeless Services Program.

Every two years, Baltimore’s Homeless Services Program leads a count of the city’s homeless population as part of requirements for federal funding.

Web Extra: Gabby Knighton with details of the city's homeless census that begins January 28th

Web Extra: Olivia Farrow on whether homeless services are getting the money they need to address the problem

How a few Maryland counties are tackling the homeless census this year.

Groundhog Day is this week, but it’s actually a beaver that has taken up residence in the main park of the city of Salisbury on the Eastern Shore. We talk with the director of the Salisbury Zoo about what this indicates about the wildlife population on the Eastern Shore.
 
A peek into a modern marriage in the new show at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre.

Understanding shelter and security in new ways at MICA’s Under Cover exhibit.

We talk with an advocate, a researcher and a blogger about what it’s like to be homeless in Baltimore.

The future of the Occupy movement in Baltimore.

Holiday gift baskets for all the people in your life.

Maryland Morning Culture Calendar.

Are women being treated unfairly at one of the city’s newest homeless shelters?

Morgan State develops a program to get students into national security jobs.

Prints from all over the place up now at the BMA.

How do the homeless youth of Baltimore cope?

Dr. Najmaldin Karim, neurosurgeon from Silver Spring…and Governor of Kirkuk.

Tom Hall talks with Mark Hyman about football.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of a Baltimore production of the 1959 classic by Lorraine Hansberry.

Three men talk about their journeys from homelessness and addiction to shelter and recovery, through the help of Earl’s Place, a transitional housing program in Baltimore.